Resume opencv4nodejs

[piercus]

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You may have noticed that the opencv4nodejs project is no longer maintained since 2 years, this is because @justadudewhohacks do not have enough time right, which we all understand.

I see on github that a lot of forks have been maintained during last months, and I'm afraid the forks will diverge too much, leaving the new comers in a difficult situation.

If you are interested to discusss this, i have open a channel #opencv4nodejs in the opencv.org slack.
Please connect to the slack using this link and then join the discussion by connecting to the #opencv4nodejs channel.

Thanks for your help

[UrielCh]

UrielCh/opencv4nodejs is now retro-compatible with justadudewhohacks/opencv4nodejs

[UrielCh]

Hi,
Great news for those people that do not want to build their OpenCV:
I published @u4/opencv4nodejs V 6.2.4 today,

This version autodetects the common setup path for Brew on Mac, Chocolatey on Windows, and Apt on Linux.

• Windows:

choco install opencv

• Mac:

brew install opencv

• debian:

apt -y install libopencv-contrib-dev libopencv-dev

just define environment variable: OPENCV4NODEJS_DISABLE_AUTOBUILD=1

And your prebuild OpenCV will be used.

You may need to call:
npx build-opencv rebuild
or
npx build-opencv --nobuild rebuild (if you do not define OPENCV4NODEJS_DISABLE_AUTOBUILD variable)

[issuefiler]

Have a look at #860 for how to add maintainers to the NPM package or transfer the ownership, @justadudewhohacks.